LCK CL2026-w09
Weekly Report · Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2026
Published 2026-08-16 15:11
22 games — that is what the LCK CL week added up to, spread across 5 series. The upset of the week belongs to T1 Esports Academy, who took the series against KT Rolster Challengers. Going into the week the two sides carried season win rates of 62.5% and 100.0%. Games averaged 32:00 this week, close to the season average of 31:26. Game length alone does not mark this week out.
Results
Playoffs Round 2
Playoffs Round 2
Playoffs Round 2
Playoffs Round 4
Playoffs Round 3
Team records
2 series won against 0 lost — that is the T1 Esports Academy week, which comes to 6-1 in games.
| Team | Series | Games |
|---|---|---|
| 2W 0L | 6W 1L | |
| 1W 1L | 5W 5L | |
| 1W 1L | 4W 5L | |
| 1W 1L | 3W 5L | |
| 0W 2L | 4W 6L |
Best five
Haetae (Top), Painter (Jungle), Guti (Mid), Cypher (Bot), Cloud (Support) — the strongest weekly line at each position, 5 in total. The standout line belongs to Cloud of T1 Esports Academy, who played 7 games at Support, won 6 of them, and posted a KDA of 5/12/85 for a ratio of 7.50.
Top
Haetae
T1 Esports Academy6W 1L12/20/28 · KDA 2.00
Jungle
Painter
T1 Esports Academy6W 1L33/16/54 · KDA 5.44
Mid
Guti
T1 Esports Academy6W 1L39/18/47 · KDA 4.78
Bot
Cypher
T1 Esports Academy6W 1L32/17/38 · KDA 4.12
Support
Cloud
T1 Esports Academy6W 1L5/12/85 · KDA 7.50
Weekly awards
Meta watch
The reference point for reading this meta is patch 16.3. The champion named most often in the draft was Orianna, with picks and bans together reaching 72.7%. The top of that list runs Orianna, Rumble, Azir.
Best games
Kiwoom DRX Challengers and DN SOOPers Challengers played the longest game of the week. It ran 40:09 and ended with DN SOOPers Challengers ahead. DN SOOPers Challengers and Nongshim Esports Academy finished within 4,582 of each other in total gold, the tightest game of the week, and Nongshim Esports Academy took it.
Longest game
40:09
Closest game
4,582 gold